Re: Antoine's Illusory Numbers

[Rick MacDonald <egp@shore.net>]

JOzersky@aol.com wrote:
> Isn't this the way Moses Malone played? and he led the league in rebounding. I seem to remember him being very quick to get his own misses.  Although it shows poor shooting it also shows some heart as many other players would quit or look for a foul call after a missed lay-up. As long as he keeps after it I'm happy.

Rick


 
> Bill Cooper and I kicked around this subject-off list a few months ago, and
> last night bears it out.  The worse antoine shoots, the better his rebounding
> numbers look because of multiple taps and follow-ups.  Thus his numbers get
> inflated from offensive rebounds, of which he has more than Shaquille O Neal,
> even before he went down.  Last night he went something like 4 for 18 and had
> 17 rebounds.  Therefore, although it certainly augurs well for his future, we
> can't realistically compare him to real rebounders.  Has he put together a
>  good shooting and rebounding night yet?  Im curious.  I hope Bird is
> tutoring him to some extent.  Bird was a lot more of an outside player than
> Antoine, but he would often go out and get you 30+ points and fifteen or
> sixteen rebounds.  (I remember once his getting 42 and 20 with a broken nose)
>  Imagine if Glen Rice could play on the post like Vin Baker and pass like
> John Stockton.  That's what we had.
> 
> Now lets go out and get Duncan!  One good thing about the Dallas loss,
> incidentally -- speaking of which, where is Bill Cooper's account of it? --
> the loss put us four games ahead of hte spurs, which means even a victory
> tongiht would still give us a three game cushion.  Re the Dallas Game --
> Finley was out of bounds, and Twon was certainly fouled at the end, wasnt he?